Test manager

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Athlon
Athlon is one of the leading providers of vehicle leasing and fleet management in Europe, managing more than 395,000 vehicles. Athlon has developed innovative, sustainable and cost-efficient business mobility solutions for more than 100 years. The company enables people to move hassle-free through integrated and sustainable fleet & mobility solutions. Athlon constantly pushes boundaries to clear the way for the customers to enjoy mobile life. Headquartered in The Netherlands, the company is active in over 20 countries in Europe as well as North America, directly, or via partners. Athlon is part of Daimler AG and is operated by Daimler Financial Services.

Team
The team is focused on implementing a new system for performing credit checks on companies requesting lease contracts. This involves the implementation of a new credit assessment system, a new workflow management system, a new document management system and a new data lake.

Project description
The @Once Replacement Project entails implementing the assessment of the credit risk of prospect Athlon customers and existing customers for whom a financial loan is taken for lease, rental or other financial contract and services. The credit risk assessment will be based on a combination of internal credit history data (such as late payment arrears as recorded in the Athlon financial accounting systems of the concerned countries), and external credit agency reports assessing the credit risk profile of a customer. The prime objective of the project is to provide a generic component in the Athlon application landscape for all current and future Athlon countries with the necessary credit risk assessment instruments for concluding and adjusting financial contracts, including automated scoring and manual Underwriting.

Role of Test Manager
The Test Manager will be responsible for the test activities within Athlon International for several projects, starting with the @Once Replacement project. An important part of the Test Manager is composing the different test environments. Within Athlon the different components (applications) that are involved with the credit scoring are running on different platforms (AWS, Daimler Cloud, Virtual Servers, Physical Servers) and therefore it is essential that for ST, UAT and PROD the environment structure is well defined. Also the Test Manager is responsible for determining the test strategy based on a risk evaluation and defining the necessary tests (system test, user acceptance test, production test and chain testing), including the master test plan. As a final responsibility the Test Manager will help the project manager in bringing the application(s) into Production.

Tasks:

• Manages the testing team (incl. hiring testers)

• Defines the test plan

• Defines the testing environments

• Establishes and maintains good working relationships with internal stakeholders

• Report on progress of all test activities cross all projects

Required skills:

• At least 5 years of experience as Test Manager

• A minimum of 3 years of validatable experience in defining, coordinating and executing system tests, functional tests and acceptance tests in different environments

• Experience in creating test plans, test scripts and test reports

• Experience with performance testing, stress/load testing, integration testing and chain testing

• Experience with quality assurance processes and defect tracking

• Experience with tooling: Tmap or ISTQB, Jira, Confluence, Rally, VersionOne, Slack, Teams

• Experience with test automation

• Knowledge of Agile methodology (SCRUM) and Waterfall methodology (Prince2)

• Fluent in English

• Excellent communication skills

Traveling involved: Once every two months to Stuttgart